Please Help: Parse error at line 1043, column 20; mismatched tag

[Andrea Baratie]

I converted a shapefile from ArcMap into a KML file, but get an error every time I try and open the file in Google Earth.  I'm not sure how to fix this error.

Thanks for your help!

[Noisette]

Hi Andrea, your problem is in this line:

      <name><Null></name>

Google Earth thinks <Null> is a tag, hence the error "mismatched tag".

You could use escape characters as you've done here:

<td>&lt;Null&gt;</td>

but that doesn't work in the <name> field.  The best is just to remove the <>.  See attached file.